The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research in a wide range of areas of Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science concerning dynamic aspects of cognition, including: wide-coverage parsing and statistical natural language processing, question answering, information extraction, statistical machine translation, computational syntax and semantics and their interaction in processing; human learning, human reasoning and psychologically realistic knowledge representation; the production and analysis of cooperative communication in a number of modalities including spoken and written text and dialogue, graphics and multimedia, and music.
ICCS is part of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Through the cross-college Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC), the Institute interacts with other units in Edinburgh, notably the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences.
